As dependence on the cloud increases, ensuring stable and efficient access to cloud services is becoming increasingly important. Distributed digital infrastructure requires a broader approach of geo-redundancy across regions.

Equinix held a digital infrastructure media briefing at the TEC Center in the Hana Securities Building in Yeouido, Seoul.

The event introduced three solutions from Equinix: Platform Equinix, Network Edge, and Equinix Fabric, which reduce downtime risks through geographic redundancy.

Jang Hye-deok, CEO of Equinix Korea, demonstrated the remote setup process of establishing ‘geographic redundancy’, explaining how companies with limited capital investment can quickly build network infrastructure across countries.

Anthony Ho, Equinix Asia Pacific product management director, emphasized, “Traditionally, geographic redundancy would take three to six months just to set up the equipment, but with Equinix fabric and platforms, you can set it up in less than 10 minutes while sitting down.”
Enterprises using Equinix’s Network Edge VNF devices can set up cloud-to-cloud routing by routing traffic between two CSPs. Additional virtual routers can then be deployed to provide redundant connectivity to CSPs located in the same city, enhancing local redundancy for resilience.

This approach protects devices from single hardware failures because redundant devices are placed in different compute areas. Additionally, redundant virtual circuits can be flexibly created from VNF devices to CSPs depending on the risk tolerance for network downtime.

Equinix Fabric allows you to create additional connections between network edge devices and connect additional devices in different cities to create a geographic redundancy architecture. By connecting additional devices in different cities, the risk of an outage occurring in a specific city can be spread across multiple locations, mitigating potential downtime in a single location.

This approach is increasingly popular among enterprises seeking to minimize downtime. Platform Equinix’s Network Edge provides a variety of options for connecting cities across distances, with Equinix Fabric helping enterprises improve their infrastructure to meet their business priorities.

Many enterprises have physical equipment through Equinix’s IBX colocation data centers and can integrate a geographic redundancy architecture with connections to CSPs such as AWS and Azure. Colocation is another geographic redundancy service point, effectively allowing enterprises to build another point in their network architecture.

CEO Jang Hye-deok said, “Equinix provides services by building a total of 264 data center infrastructures in 72 cities, 33 countries, and 6 continents, and is supporting domestic customers’ overseas expansion through innovations in liquid cooling to support AI and the goal of achieving 100% renewable energy coverage by 2030.”